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Recently I posted on this article from Wired The Pentagon Wants Your Brain about cognitive enhancements that we can look forward to or maybe not. This article from The Guardian picks up on the same topic, but mentions something that Philip K. Dick and Steven Spielberg warned us about, Brain will be battlefield of future, warns US intelligence report

On the battlefield, bullets may be replaced with “pharmacological land mines” that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact, while scanners and other electronic devices could be developed to identify suspects from their brain activity and even disrupt their ability to tell lies when questioned, the report says.

[  ]…The report says brain imaging will not improve sufficiently in the next 20 years to read peoples’ intentions from afar and spot criminals before they act, but it might be good enough to help identify people at a checkpoint or counter who are afraid or anxious. (emphasis mine)

Maybe the concept of Precrime isn’t in the works, but spotting people who are anxious is just a few degrees off. We all think some bad thoughts once in a while. Certainly many people feel anxious at some times . A scanner set up someplace in a city in the way that live cams are set up around New York City says you’re more nervous then is acceptable – that criteria determined by some well meaning committee for our protection – suddenly you’re stopped for questioning because you were thinking about breaking up with your mate, or quitting your job or whatever. Then you’re in the position of defending your personal life and thoughts to someone with the authority to detain you.

be free buy a bike or be like a goddess is the implication of this old bicycle advertisement. The sentiments not all that different from the modern adverts to get us to buy a car.

A NOUN, A VERB, AND P.O.W….. Everyone wants to be sensitive to McCain’s time as a POW, but those words are not the answer to a question about his health-care policies or an inquiry about his cheating at a question and answer session at a church. POW does not stand for Protective Outer Wrap. Thank you sir for your honorable service, but your past hardships acknowledged, you want to be president and it is incumbent of on you to answer some questions about your political positions and policies. This is not an unreasonable expectation nor does it in any way diminish your past hardships. Many of us remember a situation in which people of a certain party did in fact attack a decorated vet’s service, Delegates mock Kerry with ‘purple heart’ bandages

Delegates to the Republican National Convention found a new way to take a jab at Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s Vietnam service record: by sporting adhesive bandages with small purple hearts on them

The Republican band has become mud partly due to years of doling out this kind of garbage. Bush hasn’t helped. So McCain a quarter century veteran of Washington politics is running as the reform candidate? We don’t know what those reforms are because the answer is either nonsensical sound bites or a three letter abbreviation.

autumn russet. wallpaper size, but has some fog and noise that might not be to everyone’s taste.